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spinach salad ideas
We are celebrating Christmas at our house this weekend, so I'm making Christmas lunch. We're having cornish game hens (stuffed with apples and onions), Bob Evan's rolls, loaded mashed potatoes, and I'd like to make a spinach salad.
I'm trying to stay away from an overly sweet spinach salad. Right now, I have some baby spinach and bacon. What else could I add? Any good special dressings I could make?
Re: spinach salad ideas
The "standard" spinach salad I see at lots of restaurants is baby spinach, mushrooms, red onions, crispy bacon, and a warm bacon dressing. I love spinach salad!
At DuClaw they actually serve it with a warm honey lemon dressing and it's *delicious*. I've tried to mimic it at home with some Ken's honey mustard dressing, lemon juice, olive oil, a little extra honey, and lots of salt & pepper. I have no idea what the ratio is - I just mix until it tastes good
Oh! And hard-boiled egg! Very important part of the salad.
Here's a honey lemon dressing recipe that sounds good. And here's Alton's spinach salad with warm bacon dressing recipe - it's bound to be good.
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The first thing that pops to mind is hot bacon dressing since you want to add bacon, but that's definitely a sweet dressing, so it wouldn't work.
One of my favorites is slivered almonds, mandarin oranges, shredded monterey jack cheese, and Brianna's Blush Wine vinaigrette. I could easily see mushrooms or hard boiled eggs working well w/ this, too.
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Thanks everyone! I think I'll try the Alton Brown recipe. It is kind of what I pictured in my head but couldn't quite recreate on my own.
In general, I'm trying to keep Christmas dinner nice but with less effort than Thanksgiving. It generally works out pretty well.